- Date
- December 16, 1992, 02:05 local (07:05 UTC)
- Place
- Savannah, GA
- Injuries
- 2 serious
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N38037Beech 76
- Weather
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Status
- Completed · report September 28, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19921216050299A
- Case key
- 8710
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Probable cause
The pilot's poor preflight and inflight planning.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The flight departed allegheny airport at 2035 eastern standard time. The pilot received a full weather briefing prior to the departure, which included a winds aloft forecast. He stated that he estimated the fuel on board would be sufficient for six hours of flight. The pilots operating handbook for the aircraft shows the endurance for the aircraft, at the altitude and power settings used, to be five hours and thirty minutes. The pilot reported that the aircraft was extremely low on fuel prior to the accident, and that both engines lost power prior to the emergency landing attempt. The accident occurred at 0205 eastern standard time.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N38037
- Reported as
- Beech 76
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- ME-383
- Airframe hours
- 2,198
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-A1G6D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Operator
- Marshall Air Service
- Registered owner
- Marshall Air Service
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · October 7, 1992 · 50 hours before
- Departed
- AGC · Pittsburg, PA
- Destination
- BQK · Brunswick, GA
- Flight plan
- IFR
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 34
- Certificates
- Commercial, Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Left
- Flight hours
- 1,100 total · 102 in this make and model · 1,007 as pilot in command · 71 in the last 90 days · 24 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Instrument (IMC) · Night/dark
- Wind
- 90° at 4 knots
- Visibility
- 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 500 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 52 °F, dew point 48 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- SAV, 3 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.